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SPIEL 2019, Essen + High Frontier 4 All

The ION:SMG team attended Essen SPIEL 2019 between October 24th – October 27th and we got the chance to meet some of our backers and customers in person. Thank you for all the love and encouragement you shared about the game.

During SPIEL 2019 we also launched High Frontier 4 All on Kickstarter. The campaign was funded in just 4 minutes 🙂 See link to the campaign.

Heavy Cardboard play-throughs starts to roll out. A rough order have been set for our games to be featured in Heavy Carborad’s live-stream Teach & Play-Through on youtube. This is very preliminary but the order will probably be

For the the first time Table Top Game Expo 2019 was held in Stockholm, Sweden, between May 11 to May 12. Ion Game Design had a booth at the expo where we had play testing and sold our games. On Saturday Jon Manker, lead game designer, also participated in a panel discussion about game board design and on Sunday, Jon together with Besime Uyanik, CEO, had a presentation about EXPEDITION ZETTA-As a Snapshot of Today’s Indie Boardgame Publishing Processes.

It was a nice weekend were we had the chance to meet with board game enthusiast 🙂

Ion Game Design’s collaboration with Sierra Madre Games is now soon reaching the one year mark and it as been an interesting year 🙂

During this year we have had two successful Kickstarter campaigns, published three games Neanderthal, Greenland and Pax Emancipation and have five games that are being manufactured. The five games are Pax Transhumanity, Bios:Origins 2 and re-prints of Pax Porfiriana, Bios: Genesis and Bios:Megafauna. They are available for pre-order on the website until beginning of April. And at this very moment we have also started working on the highly anticipated game High Frontier 4 edition. The date for the launch of this game on Kickstarter is set to October 24th, 2019, so save this date 🙂

Ion Game Design is happy to announce that we have now started a partnership with Heavy Carboard, which will include play-throughs of our games like Bios: Origins, High Frontier, Expedition Zetta and more. Heavy Cardboard has previously done playthrough of Bios:Megafauna.

Ion Game Design’s collaboration with Sierra Madre Games is now soon reaching the one year mark and it as been an interesting year. During this year we have had two successful Kickstarter campaigns, published three games Neanderthal, Greenland and Pax Emancipation and have five games that are being manufactured. The five games are Pax Transhumanity, Bios:Origins 2 and re-prints of Pax Porfiriana, Bios: Genesis and Bios:Megafauna. At this very moment we have also started working on the highly anticipated game High Frontier 4 edition. The date for the launch of this game on Kickstarter is set to October 24th, 2019.

Bios:Origins (second edition), Bios:Genesis, Bios:Megafauna, Pax Transhumanity and Pax Porfiriana is now available for pre-order. Estimated delivery for all five games is May 2019. For pre-order visit our web store.

Bios:Origins 2

This is the 3rd and final game of the Bios trilogy. We have reworked the game Origins from ground up, keeping its bottom-up feel, but with new features to integrate it with the predecessor game Bios:Megafauna. Also the dice are gone. The classic map is retained, as well as a variable hexsheet for cratons imported from Bios:Megafauna. The technology tracks are retained, and one new one added. The cards have been sorted in categories of Culture, Politics, and Industry, and a Market has been added. Designer Phil Eklund.

Pax Transhumanity

The latest game in the Pax saga sets you as a startup entrepreneur in the not-too-distant future. Your financial agents indicate how much of your assets are in capital, wealth, and debt, and which can be utilized in other ways such as employees, patents, and syndications. Maneuvering these agents generates money for your actions, including syndicating ideas in the market, commercializing them to startup companies or solve problems, hiring employees, importing ideas from other spheres, placating outraged activists, and researching ideas to gain patents and reveal new ideas. The spheres include the first world, developing world, the cloud, and space. Designer Matt Eklund.Continue reading “About the Bios:Origins and Pax Transhumanity”